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Hosted pub/sub WebSocket service with simple client SDKs for live updates and notifications.

Bidirectional real-time events over WebSocket with fallbacks, rooms and auto-reconnect.

High-performance CRDT for collaborative editing, with bindings for Tiptap, Lexical, CodeMirror and more.

Hosted APIs and React components for multiplayer presence, comments, notifications and collaborative editing.

Head to head

Metric	Pusher Channels	Socket.IO	Yjs	Liveblocks
Stars	2.2k	63.2k	23.1k	4.8k
Weekly downloads	4.4M	21.2M	15.7M	564k
Download growth	+51%	+27%	+67%	+54%
Popularity score	72/100	89/100	84/100	69/100
Forks	394	10.2k	820	449
Open issues	9	189	161	102
Last commit	1w ago	6d ago	2d ago	6d ago
Latest version	8.6.0	4.8.4	13.6.33	3.25.0
License	MIT	MIT	n/a	n/a
First released	2010	2010	2014	2021
Signals	None	Popular	Popular	None
Listed in	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration Backend › Real-time & WebSockets	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration Backend › Real-time & WebSockets	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration

Weekly downloads over time

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Pusher Channels
Socket.IO
Yjs
Liveblocks